Crystalclear received the award for the Best driveway transformation over £ 5,000
Peter Montgomery and myself receiving this prestigious award 
The Marshalls Register award for the Best Driveway Transformation
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Driveway after
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I would like to give a big thank you to all the Marshall's staff for putting on a well organised presentation and fantastic night for the 2010 North West region register awards and I look forward to 2011 with the new ideas to be implemented for the Marshall's Installer scheme
Well done everyone
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Comments
Thats the ticket Mick, well done to you all at Crystalclear
Best
Kerry
Well done to you too Mick:-0)
thanks everyone
thanks paul
thank you Mark